Galatea Company
Rhys Bernier
Rhys Bernier (he/him) is a Dora Nominated Toronto actor who studied Musical Theatre at Randolph College and is very excited to be making his BASH’d debut! Some recent credits have included Fin in ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls’ (Roseneath Theatre), Bottom in ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ (BarTeam), The Man in the Yellow Hat in ‘Curious George’ (TYT), and Officer Lockstock in ‘Urinetown’ (RCPA). Rhys is a strong advocate for gender inclusive casting and productions that demonstrate queer and trans identities, and is very excited to be included in this story that explores these themes from almost 500 years ago! (Instagram: @rel_91).
Richard Alan Campbell
Richard has been at this a looong time! And he’s very happy to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d once again.
Selected Theatre: The Time Capsule (Theatre Aquarius); The Real McCoy (Blyth Festival); Henry Five, The Tempest, King Lear and more (Driftwood Theatre); The Cold War (VideoCabaret); Confederation Parts 1 & 2, The Great War, Trudeau and Levesque (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper), The War of 1812 (VideoCabaret/Stratford Festival); Art (Theatre Northwest); Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood); It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th St. (Theatre New Brunswick/Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest (Theatre By The Bay); The Graduate (Grand Theatre); Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus and more (Shakespeare in the Rough). Film/TV: Workin’ Moms; Suits; Reign; Murdoch Mysteries
Selected Theatre: The Time Capsule (Theatre Aquarius); The Real McCoy (Blyth Festival); Henry Five, The Tempest, King Lear and more (Driftwood Theatre); The Cold War (VideoCabaret); Confederation Parts 1 & 2, The Great War, Trudeau and Levesque (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper), The War of 1812 (VideoCabaret/Stratford Festival); Art (Theatre Northwest); Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood); It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th St. (Theatre New Brunswick/Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest (Theatre By The Bay); The Graduate (Grand Theatre); Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus and more (Shakespeare in the Rough). Film/TV: Workin’ Moms; Suits; Reign; Murdoch Mysteries
Kyle Claeys
Kyle Claeys is an actor, comedian, musician and producer, as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of A.C.T. Productions. He has worked as a performer with Shifting Ground Collective, Shakespeare BASH'd, Comedy Bar Danforth and is a member of the Toronto-based musical improv troupe RATS! Another Musical?!. He is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Acting program as well as The Second City, Toronto Conservatory. Most recently, Kyle has been performing in various improv comedy shows around Toronto and you can catch him performing in the musical improv show East Side Story every final Friday of the month at Comedy Bar Danforth.
Diana Eremeeva
Diana Eremeeva is a queer artist and performer based in Toronto. They are passionate about theatre as a living, breathing art form that can continually
evolve, drawing on various traditions, styles and mediums. Having trained at the Theatre & Drama Studies joint program at UTM and Sheridan, studied Dramaturgy and Drama Studies alongside Creative Writing at UTM, Diana found her way back to George Brown Theatre School last year. Diana is particularly drawn to stories that center characters at the fringes of society—figures who are off kilter, odd, bold, and unapologetically expressive. Whether it’s experimental, contemporary, or classic theatre, Diana finds great joy in bringing to life characters who defy expectations. This fascination with the unconventional drives their work, as they love inhabiting roles that are strange, multifaceted, yet deeply resonant to the human experience. Diana approaches each project with an open mind, embracing the fluidity of theatre that allows her to explore and fuse multiple artistic forms.
evolve, drawing on various traditions, styles and mediums. Having trained at the Theatre & Drama Studies joint program at UTM and Sheridan, studied Dramaturgy and Drama Studies alongside Creative Writing at UTM, Diana found her way back to George Brown Theatre School last year. Diana is particularly drawn to stories that center characters at the fringes of society—figures who are off kilter, odd, bold, and unapologetically expressive. Whether it’s experimental, contemporary, or classic theatre, Diana finds great joy in bringing to life characters who defy expectations. This fascination with the unconventional drives their work, as they love inhabiting roles that are strange, multifaceted, yet deeply resonant to the human experience. Diana approaches each project with an open mind, embracing the fluidity of theatre that allows her to explore and fuse multiple artistic forms.
Hope Goudsward
Hope Goudsward is a queer actor, singer and theatre creator, with a passion for new works, musicals, and classical theatre. She is beyond thrilled to work with BASH’d on this production, and is looking forward to exploring the world of Galatea. Selected theatre credits include Martha in Divine Monster (Toronto Fringe), Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Barteam Theatre), and swing in The Snow Queen (TYT). Up next you can find Hope playing Jojo in Seussical at TYT Theatre and producing the new Canadian play How to Feel. Hope wants to thank her community for their support and encouragement through this wonderfully crazy career.
Kevin Hammond
Kevin is an actor/director, living in Toronto, where he has been the Artistic Director for both Humber River Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Rough. He has directed or performed in over 30 Shakespeare productions. Guest director credits include Othello and Hamlet for the Arabian Shakespeare Festival (San Francisco), Richard II for Perspective Theatre (San Jose) and The Taming of the Shrew for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. In the spring of 2025 he will be returning to California to direct Henry V for Pear Theatre. Kevin is also a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival where he spent two seasons as an Assistant Director. While there he also directed workshop productions of Double Falsehood and an original Shakespeare mash-up entitled A Most Unnoble Swerving. Since the pandemic he has been the Development Manger for The Actors’ Fund of Canada and – most importantly - proud puppy dad to Zoe.
郝邦宇 Steven Hao
郝邦宇 Steven Hao is an award winning director, actor, and writer currently based in Tkaronto. Born and raised in China, Steven is very open about how his upbringing and cultural influences have often impacted how he tells stories and leads his processes. His work can be found across many stages in Ontario, primarily with a focus on new Canadian works. Most recently, Steven appeared in the world premiere of Kat Sandler’s adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, as well as Salesman in China at the Stratford Festival, and he’s grateful for the continued opportunity to support new play development everywhere he goes. His selected theatre credits include: For Directing: Assistant Director, CRAZE (Tarragon Theatre); Director, Death to the Prometheans (Studio 180); Director, One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company); Director, life and death and life and death and life and death and life. (CCTA/ACMJIS); Assistant Director, Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera/Crow's Theatre); Director, Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective); Assistant Director, Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre); Assistant Director, Dragon’s Tale (Tapestry Opera); Assistant Director, The Chinese Lady (Crow’s Theatre/Studio 180 Theatre/fu-GEN Theatre); Director, A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Toronto Fringe Festival/Kick & Push Festival); Director, I and You (Precipice Productions); Director, Constellations (Precipice Productions). For Acting: Two Seasons at the Stratford Festival, Anne of Green Gables, Forgiveness, Romeo & Juliet, Salesman in China (Stratford Festival); Pirithous/Wooer, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare Bash’d); Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Cockroach, Cockroach(Tarragon Theatre). Upcoming: Director, Ride the Cyclone (Shifting Ground Collective); Director, Concord Floral (Pucker’s); Performer, Pu Songling: Strange Tales (Crow's Theatre); Third Season at Stratford Festival. For More: @steven_haoby
Jonnie Lombard
jonnie is a trans theatre-y thing from the woods stumbling through side quests of sentience. they write, perform, and frolic in playgrounds of pop-art melodrama, from bars to basements to bathrooms and back again. recently they have been an ancient greek unintelligible being, a crayola cryptid, a cyber-canine sex demon, a pigeon, and tiny tim. they have learned and grown at the Paprika Festival, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, and from all their friends. if you ask jonnie to go dancing they will always say yes!
Izzi Nagel
Izzi Nagel is a Toronto-based theatre, film, and TV actor and multidisciplinary artist. She’s thrilled to be making her Shakespeare Bash’d debut!
Onstage credits include Storybook Search with Bad Hats Theatre (Dora Award–winning Ensemble and Production), Stiff & Sons (Best of Fringe, 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival), Anne with Guild Festival Theatre, and It’s Only a Shadow with Theatre Orangeville.
Onscreen credits include Sheriff Country (CBS), Blue’s Clues & You (Nickelodeon), Don’t Hang Up, The Big Cigar (Apple TV+), The Z Suite (Tubi), and The Swearing Jar (TIFF 2022).
Izzi is a graduate of the Acting Conservatory at Toronto Metropolitan University (formally Ryerson Theatre School) and currently serves as an Actor-in-Residence with B Street Collaborative.
Onstage credits include Storybook Search with Bad Hats Theatre (Dora Award–winning Ensemble and Production), Stiff & Sons (Best of Fringe, 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival), Anne with Guild Festival Theatre, and It’s Only a Shadow with Theatre Orangeville.
Onscreen credits include Sheriff Country (CBS), Blue’s Clues & You (Nickelodeon), Don’t Hang Up, The Big Cigar (Apple TV+), The Z Suite (Tubi), and The Swearing Jar (TIFF 2022).
Izzi is a graduate of the Acting Conservatory at Toronto Metropolitan University (formally Ryerson Theatre School) and currently serves as an Actor-in-Residence with B Street Collaborative.
Navtej Sandhu
Navtej Sandhu is a Dora award-winning Toronto actor with recent credits including Jin in The Caged Bird Sings directed by Rafeh Mahmud at the Aga Khan Museum and Karna/Satyavati in Mahabharata directed by Ravi Jain at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Navtej is also an experienced vocalist with credits including Devi Triptych by Red Beti Theatre and Jungle Book by Kidoons Productions. Navtej is currently an intermediate actor combatant and is now in the process of getting her advanced certification. She hopes to be able to tell her story and amplify the voices of communities that have had their voices stifled. Navtej’s goal is to continue to create and be a part of projects that she believes in, and that speak to those communities.
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”- Ossie Davis
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”- Ossie Davis
Sienna Singh
Sienna (she/they) is a mad, queer, actor/director/producer and a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s acting program. She has spent the last few years dedicated to her theatre collective Panoply which has produced multiple shows, including adaptations of Shakespeare, a punk version of The Bacchae, and a radio drama of Peter Pan. Directing Credits: Apprentice Director for Things I Know to be True (Company Theatre/Mirvish); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Panoply Collective); Unfunny, Little Accomplishments(TMU’s New Voices Festival). Select Theatre Acting Credits: Mass Exodus (BadFox Collective); Prove a Villain, LoveSick, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet (Panoply Collective); Portia’s Julius Caesar, Queen Margaret (Shakespeare in The Ruff). Select Film/Tv Credits: Fingernails (Apple TV); Locke & Key (Netflix); Grand Army (Netflix).
Emilio Vieira
Shakespeare BASH'd: Two Noble Kinsmen and Cymbeline. Stratford Festival: Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, London Assurance, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard III, The Miser, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, A School for Scandal, Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny. Elsewhere: Fulfilment Center (Coal Mine Theatre); HEIST (The Grand Theatre); The Three Musketeers (RMTC); february: a love story (Globus Theatre); Towards Youth: a play on Radical Hope (Crow's Theatre); Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park); Tartuffe (Canadian Stage); Coriolanus (Dartmouth, New Hampshire). Thank you for supporting live theatre. Instagram: @emiliovieira